{"id":95,"date":"2006-07-24T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T14:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2006\/07\/24\/should-i-use-paypal-or-google-checkout\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T14:29:06","slug":"should-i-use-paypal-or-google-checkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/should-i-use-paypal-or-google-checkout\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I use PayPal or Google Checkout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been advising my customers for quite a while now that for processing credit cards on the web PayPal is just as good of an option as any other real time credit card processing option.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago a site using PayPal for payment options was seen as amateurish, someone running an Ebay business from their basement. That is no longer true and PayPal is just as big a player as any bank. Now along comes Google and their Google Checkout service and the question to be asked is which one should you use?<\/p>\n<p>Ebay is trying to protect their cash cow and will not allow Google Checkout to be used on their site. Elsa Wenzel has written a good comparison of the two on c\/net reviews. They are really two different kinds of services and you should read this before deciding, but one thing I&#8217;m sure of is that the competition will be good for everyone.<\/p>\n<h3><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/4520-3513_7-6553495-1.html?tag=cnetfd.sd\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been advising my customers for quite a while now that for processing credit cards on the web PayPal is just as good of an option as any other real time credit card processing option. A couple of years ago a site using PayPal for payment options was seen as amateurish, someone running an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}